Species Cyamus erraticus Roussel de Vauzème, 1834

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyamus erraticus Roussel de Vauzème, A. 1834. Mémoire sur le Cyamus ceti (Latr.) de la classe des Crustacés. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 2 1: 239-255, 257-265 [259, pl. 8 fig. 22].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, South Atlantic Ocean (as "l'ocean Atlantique aux environs de l'ile Tristan d'Acunha, et dans le voisinage des Malouines").

  Type host:

   Eubalaena australis (Desmoulinus, 1822) (erroneously cited as Balaena mysticetus)

  Secondary source:

   Gruner, H.-E. 1975. Part 5 Amphipod II Caprellidea II Fam. Cyamidae. pp. 79-104 in Gruner, H.-E. & Holthuis, L.B. (eds). Crustaceorum Catalogus. Den Haag : Dr. W Junk N.V. [84].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also in all oceans, new record for Australia based on AM specimens.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast

Ecological Descriptors

Ectocommensal, marine.

 

General References

Gruner, H.-E. 1975. Part 5 Amphipod II Caprellidea II Fam. Cyamidae. pp. 79-104 in Gruner, H.-E. & Holthuis, L.B. (eds). Crustaceorum Catalogus. Den Haag : Dr. W Junk N.V.

Martin, J.W. & Heyning, J.E. 1999. First record of Isocyamus kogiae Sedlak-Weinstein, 1992 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Cyamidae) from the eastern Pacific, with comments on morphological characters, a key to the genera of the Cyamidae, and a checklist of cyamids and their hosts. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 98(1): 26-38

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	29-Apr-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		19-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED